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Google’s smart contact lens project is designed to measure the glucose content of the wearer’s tears, once every second. Theoretically, it could be a noninvasive way for diabetics to keep their blood sugar levels in check, rather than pricking their skin to sample their blood multiple times per day, or wearing a continuous monitoring device that’s stabbed into their side to tap into subcutaneous tissue.

If Microsoft can so easily be split up and run by two CEO's then I suspect the next argument would be that the company should truly split itself and make tons of $$ for it's stockholders.

I used to lean that way myself, but that would definitely put the resulting two companies at a disadvantage in a marketplace containing Google, Apple, and IBM (and others) who can merrily push OSes, dev tools, and services without government intervention.

Dart, Google’s JavaScript competitor, launched its 1.0 version last November. While Google’s Go language has quickly caught on with developers, though, Dart has been struggling to attract them. In an effort to get more developers on board, Dart today became the first project to host its framework on one of Runnable‘s recently launched Code Channels.

I've just been writing a sidescroller in Dart with my 10 year old son, and it's a pleasure to use.

I find the standard packages mean I don't have to spend so long evaluating languages which are simply there to address language deficiencies in JavaScript. It also isolates me well from browser differences.

I can develop and test in Dartium, then once happy compile to JavaScript and use in every major browser - so far with no hitches at all.

It actually feels like a well thought through language that encourages best practice in programming.

"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.

Better performance, more features, and improved tools mark the 1.1 release of Dart. Just two months after the 1.0 release, this new release delivers a set of compatible updates that makes applications easier to develop and faster for end users.

Not "faster than", just the outputted JavaScript is faster (still, I guess that's good)